Radio Free Burrito: Episode Seventeen

wil, December 28, 2009 · Categories: Books

Holy Crap, it's time for a new episode of Radio Free Burrito!

I realize this will be played for an audience of eleven, because it's the week between Christmas and New Year, but it's important to me that I maintain my creative momentum, and I suppose a non-zero number of you out there in Internetland timeshift the Burrito.

Show Notes:

• The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his "in progress" website. Thanks, Marc!
• Radio Free Burrito doesn't work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast does, but it still manages to upset mom and get Twitter breakup messages from sensitive people. You have been warned.
• This week's theme music is Dog Eat Dog, by Adam and the Ants, from the album Kings Of The Wild Frontier
• On today's show, I reach into The Vault for a story that is, on its surface, about an audition.
• I just realized that I didn't tell you what the audition was for. The, uh, thing is … I can't remember. I know it wasn't for Heroes, though, because it went so well.
• I also reach into the expanded edition of The Happiest Days of our Lives for a story about me and my son that I stupidly cut from the Monolith Press edition.
• As I said, I have a virtual bookshelf with just about everything you could ever want to know (or tell your friends) about my books.
• On Twitter, ROBERTJON pointed to WFMU's Beware of the Blog as the place I found TV, That's For Me.
• This episode is just under 40 minutes long. 
• This episode is about 37MB. 
• This episode doesn't have artwork embedded, because I still can't figure out how to get it into the goddamn file without exporting as .m4a and converting to .mp3, and doubling the filesize in the process.
• This is the end of the notes. 

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Radio Free Burrito: Episode Sixteen

wil, December 21, 2009 · Categories: Music

Holy Crap, it's time for a new episode of Radio Free Burrito!

Even though I've been doing this show for years, now, this is the first Xmas show I've ever done, with music and everything. The only thing missing is a bunch of rum with a little bit of egg nog floating in it, but I'm sure you can figure out a way to correct that mistake.

Show Notes:

• The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his "in progress" website. Thanks, Marc!
• Radio Free Burrito doesn't work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast does, but it still manages to upset mom and get Twitter breakup messages from sensitive people. You have been warned.
• Very special thanks to A Band Called Quinn for putting her Christmas song (and a bunch of other songs) into the Podsafe Music Network. 
• I can't find a decent link to Allan Sherman's 12 Gifts of Christmas on any of the Internets, which makes me a little stabby. The very best I could find, though, is here at iLike. Make sure you click the title, and not the video, which has nothing to do with the song, because that makes a lot of sense.
• Here's why I want cartoon Snoopy to leap out of the television, Shatnerquake-style, and punch someone in the face.
• Whatever you do, do not Google "Santa, I've Been Naughty" with safe search turned off. You will be permanently scarred. Especially if you add the word "sweater" to your query.
• Christmas Eve Eve from Paul and Storm's It Might Be Xmas!
• Christmas Is… originally appeared on WWdN:iX in 2006.
• It's Christmas Time, There's No Need to be Afraid.
• I usually say Happy Holidays, not because I'm captain sensitive of the SS Touchy Feely, but because I'm so irritated with all those "War on Christmas" idiots who worked so hard to turn something wonderful like Christmas into something divisive like that horrible talk radio. This year, I decided that I'd stop letting those jerks win, and reclaim "Merry Christmas" for everyone, and it will now be used in tandem with "Happy Holidays" whenever I feel like telling someone, "I hope you have a wonderful holiday season that is filled with peace and joy" in just two words. Therefore, I use the phrases interchangeably in this show.
• Merry Christmas.
• Happy Holidays.
• Happy New Year.
• Take your seat, Ralph.
• This episode is just under 40 minutes long. 
• This episode is about 57MB. Um. Wow. That's a lot of MBs, two shows in a row. I'm doing something wrong with the encoding, I think.
• Does anyone know why the size of the file almost doubles when I convert it from .m4a to .mp3? I export this in .m4a so the artwork will embed, and then convert it to .mp3. I'm sure this is an incredibly stupid way to do this, but contrary to what TV has told you, I'm not that skilled with the computers.
• This is the end of the notes. 

Ready? Then put on your inappropriately suggestive holiday sweatshirt, and

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Radio Free Burrito: Episode Fifteen

wil, December 17, 2009 · Categories: Uncategorized

Holy Crap, it's time for a new episode of Radio Free Burrito!

I started this episode on Monday, and real life (and trying damn hard not to suck) kept me working on it until Thursday. Let's find out if it was worth the wait!

Show Notes:

• The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his "in progress" website. Thanks, Marc!
• Radio Free Burrito doesn't work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast does, but it still manages to upset mom and get Twitter breakup messages from sensitive people. You have been warned.
• Very special thanks to Monsters From Mars for making incredible music and making it possible for me to play it on my show.
• If you, like me, want more Monsters from Mars, they have a pretty rockin' playlist at YouTube that makes me want to see them perform live.
• Thanks to everyone who posed a question on Twitter. I would have answered more of them, but I started to feel like I was getting boring and the show was running long. In fact, I think it's probably the weakest part of the show, and I probably won't try to do the Q&A in future episodes.
• Here are some screenshots of the pdf version of the unpublished Twitter book.
• You can follow Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt on Twitter.
• You can get more information about voice Over Voice Actor at Voiceovervoiceactor.com.
• All we want to do is eat your ganache-filled cupcake brains. (via Bear.)
• This episode is just over 41 minutes long. 
• This episode is about 56MB. Um. Wow. That's a lot of MBs.
• This is the end of the notes. 

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